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| Preface | |
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| The Evolution of City Politics in America: An Introduction | |
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| Three Themes | |
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| Economic Growth and Community Identity | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Politics | |
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| The Fragmented Metropolis | |
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| The Challenge of Urban Governance | |
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| The Origins of American Urban Politics: The First Century | |
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| The Legacy of America's Urban Past | |
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| National Development and the Cities | |
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| Outtake: City Building Has Always Required Public Efforts | |
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| A Century of Urban Growth | |
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| Interurban Rivalries | |
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| Industrialization and Urban Community | |
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| The Immigrant Tide | |
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| The Capacity to Govern | |
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| The Limited Powers of Cities | |
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| Party Machines and the Immigrants | |
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| Machines and Machine-Style Politics | |
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| Outtake: Machines Had Two Sides | |
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| The Origins of Machine Politics | |
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| Did Machines �Get The Job Done�? | |
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| Were Machines Vehicles of Upward Mobility? | |
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| Did the Machines Help Immigrants Assimilate? | |
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| The Social Reform Alternative | |
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| Ethnic Politics in Today's Cities | |
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| The Reform Crusades | |
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| The Reformers' Aims | |
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| Outtake: Municipal Reform Was Aimed at Immigrants | |
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| The Fertile Environment for Reform | |
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| The Campaigns Against Machine Rule | |
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| �Efficiency and Economy� in Municipal Affairs | |
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| The Business Model | |
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| Commission and Manager Government | |
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| Did Reform Kill the Machines? | |
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| The Reform Legacy | |
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| The Battles Continue | |
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| Urban Voters and the Rise of a National Democratic Majority | |
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| City and Nation in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Outtake: Urban Ethnics Became a Mainstay of the Democratic Party | |
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| A New Political Consciousness | |
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| The Changing Political Balance | |
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| The Depression and the Cities | |
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| Cities Gain a Voice | |
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| The Urban Programs of the New Deal | |
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| The New Deal Legacy | |
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| The Urban Crisis of the Twentieth Century | |
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| The City/Suburban Divide | |
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| A Century of Demographic Change | |
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| Outtake: Anti-Immigrant Passions Have Reached a Fever Pitch | |
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| Streams of Migration | |
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| Racial Conflict in the Cities: The Postwar Era | |
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| The Emergence of a New Kind of Poverty | |
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| The Suburban Exodus | |
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| The Romantic Suburban Ideal: 1815-1918 | |
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| The Automobile Suburbs: 1918-1945 | |
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| The Bedroom Suburbs: 1946-1970s | |
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| The Multiethnic Metropolis | |
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| Has the Urban Crisis Disappeared? | |
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| National Policy and the City/Suburban Divide | |
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| The Unintended Consequences of National Policies | |
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| Outtake: Highway Programs Contributed to the Decline of the Cities | |
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| The Politics of Slum Clearance | |
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| How Local Politics Shaped Urban Renewal | |
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| Racial Segregation and �The Projects� | |
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| National Policy and Suburban Development | |
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| Suburbs, Highways, and the Automobile | |
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| The Damaging Effects of National Policies | |
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| Federal Programs and the Divisive Politics of Race | |
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| The Brief Life of Inner-City Programs | |
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| Outtake: Racial Divisions Eventually Doomed Urban Programs | |
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| The Democrats and the Cities | |
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| The Republicans and the New Federalism | |
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| President Carter and the Democrats' Last Hurrah | |
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| Republicans and the End of Federal Assistance | |
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| Political Reality and Urban Policy | |
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| The Cities' Fall from Grace | |
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| The End of Urban Policy | |
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| The Rise of the Sunbelt | |
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| A Historic Shift | |
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| Outtake: The Electoral College Favors the Sunbelt | |
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| The Concept of the Sunbelt | |
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| Regional Shifts | |
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| Why the Sunbelt Prospered | |
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| The New Politics of Sunbelt Cities | |
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| Regional Convergence and National Politics | |
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| The Fractured Metropolis | |
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| The Rise of the Fragmented Metropolis | |
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| Metropolitan Turf Wars | |
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| Outtake: There Is a Debate about Gated Communities | |
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| How the Suburbs Became Segregated | |
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| Selling the American Dream | |
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| The Imperative of Racial Segregation | |
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| Walling Off the Suburbs: Incorporation | |
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| Walling Off the Suburbs: Zoning | |
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| The Challenge to Exclusionary Zoning | |
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| The New Face of Enclave Politics | |
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| Governing the Fragmented Metropolis | |
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| The Problem of Regional Governance | |
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| Outtake: The Costs of Sprawl Are Hotly Debated | |
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| The New Urban Form | |
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| The Concerns about Sprawl | |
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| A History of Metropolitan Reform | |
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| The New Regionalism | |
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| Smart Growth | |
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| The New Urbanism | |
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| The Prospect for Reform | |
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| The Metropolitan Chase | |
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| The Regional Battleground | |
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| Outtake: Hundreds of Little Hoovers Make the Economic Crisis Worse | |
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| Cities in the U.S. Federal System | |
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| Where the Money Comes From | |
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| Where the Money Goes | |
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| The Municipal Bond Market | |
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| The Rise of Special Authorities | |
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| Fiscal Politics and Federalism | |
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| The Renaissance of the Metropolitan Center | |
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| The Recovery of the Central Cities | |
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| Outtake: Baltimore's Revival Is Debated | |
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| The Decline of Downtown | |
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| Globalization and the Downtown Renaissance | |
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| The New Urban Culture | |
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| Tourism and Entertainment | |
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| Convention Centers | |
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| Sports Stadiums | |
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| Malls, Entertainment, and Lifestyle Complexes | |
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| Casino Gaming | |
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| The Politics of Tourism | |
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| Old and New Downtowns | |
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| Governing the Divided City | |
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| A Delicate Balancing Act | |
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| Outtake: Multiethnic Coalitions Are Hard to Keep Together | |
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| Assessing the State of Urban Governance | |
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| The Rewards of Political Incorporation | |
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| Neighborhood Organizing and the Urban Agenda | |
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| Community Development Corporations | |
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| The Conservative Reaction | |
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| A Convergence of Styles | |
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| City and Metropolis in the Global Era | |
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| Politics in a Time of Change | |
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| The New (but Actually Old) Growth Politics | |
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| The Delicate Art of Urban Governance | |
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| The Politics of the Fragmented Metropolis | |
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| Index | |